Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US black, also slang up) to sell drugs.

1985		T.R. Houser Central Sl. 16: ‘Dudes be slangin’ to all them crack monsters.’ [Ibid.] 48: slangin’ Dealing dope.
1992		UGK ‘Cocaine in the Back of the Ride’ 🎵 Sellin fifty dollar slabs as I’m slangin them ki’s.
1995		Mack 10 ‘Based on a True Story’ 🎵 Thats the way it go, thats the name of the game / Young niggas gettin over by slangin caine.
1996		UGK ‘Ridin’ Dirty’ 🎵 Got all these little niggas slangin’ that yay.
2004		T.I. ‘I Can’t Quit’ 🎵 I’d rather go back to slanging drugs and shit.
2005		L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 190: He didn’t get that car or that video and them girls slangin’ no dope.
2014		C. Eble (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2014.
2013		K. Koke ‘Fire in the Booth’ 🎵 We’d probably all be broke if [we] don't slang / That’s why I'm shotting O’s on the road fam.
2015		P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 103: Why do you go to these meetings? Shouldn’t you be out slanging and banging?
2015		67 ‘Live Corn’ 🎵 I'm still slanging these O’s, running through hoes.
2018		KO ‘9er Ting’ 🎵 In the trap and slang up them baggies / Bandits look happy.

2. in weak use, to give, to sell.

2007

UGK ‘Life Is 2009’ 🎵 I used to slang dirty raps to my P.A. fans.

3. in fig. use, to hit.

1992

UGK ‘Trill Ass Nigga’ 🎵 And we ain’t hearin that ying-yang / You keep on runnin that lip and watch yo’ ass get slanged.